By Elias Antonius
For many within the greater Levantine Rûm community the
question of, whether or not the Rûm constitute their own ethnicity is a loaded
one. Victims of Western Imperialism believe that we are merely a spiritual
identity and that each community within the artificially created nation-states
of the Levant has separate origins. While others continue to hold on to the
ludicrous idea that all rum are ethnically Arabs.
